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Example sentences for: surly

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Under Brill's system, I could pay $20-$40 a year to license a used revolver; take a joke of a test administered by a surly, bored, bureaucrat; and carry a concealed weapon anywhere in the country.
The White House helped itself with a brilliant outreach campaign that went around the sometimes surly Congressional Black Caucus and reached black voters directly through their ministers and churches.
Various surly young men attached to this diplomatic outpost spent their afternoons working on old Buicks in front of the building.
Drug policy is boring, but a fight between a saucy blue blood and a surly redneck is fun.
I hate them all: the lackadaisical baggage handlers who "accidentally" sent our luggage to a remote cargo area at JFK last week, the surly steward(esse)s, the brazen caterers whose spongy chicken in brown goo so shamelessly denigrates the memory of food.